A proposal to limit parking outside homes near a major shopping center redevelopment in Hampden won preliminary approval in a tight vote by a divided Baltimore City Council Monday night.
The bill would create a resident-only parking zone in...

The Baltimore City Council is once again trying to ban many stores from giving plastic bags to customers — only a month after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake shot down its last attempt.
On Monday, Councilman Bill Henry reintroduced a bill Rawlings-...

Maxie's Pizza Bar & Grille of Charles Village has had its liquor license suspended for six weeks and agreed to pay $8,000 in fines for serving alcohol to minors on two occasions this past fall.
A plea deal previously agreed upon by Thomas Akras, the...

The recent security breach at a Baltimore Police station — the second incident in five months — is raising questions about whether the city strikes the right balance between making such buildings accessible and protecting those inside.
On...

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Long gone are the days when Harry "Soft Shoes" McGuirk ruled South Baltimore's Stonewall Democratic Club as a benevolent despot, the last of the city's old-school political bosses.
So, too, is the era when the Curran family's United Third District Democratic Organization was dominant in the Northeast, and the Mitchell clan's Democratic Action Organization held sway on Baltimore's west side. The Independent Republican Coalition of Baltimore, once the largest GOP organization, was active for more than...

The City Council voted Monday to ban plastic grocery bags and require all of Baltimore's nearly 3,000 police officers to wear body cameras. But Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake promptly repeated her pledge to veto both bills.
"I can't sign legislation that I think sends the wrong message to our citizens and to businesses," Rawlings-Blake said. Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young said he'd be shocked if he could muster the necessary votes to override the vetoes.
Council members backed the plastic...

For more than a decade, mayoral vetoes were practically unheard of in Baltimore.
Not anymore.
Within the past three months, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has vetoed or vowed to veto three City Council bills — legislation empowering the council to reduce minor privilege fees, requiring body cameras for police officers and banning plastic grocery bags.
"She was mayor for a number of years before she ever exercised a veto," said her spokesman, Kevin Harris. "But if there is legislation that she...

No sooner had the Baltimore City Council taken a strong step in defiance of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's promised vetoes of two controversial bills Monday night than they announced their intentions to cave under the pressure and let her have her way. The council, it seems, is an independent, co-equal branch of government, but only up to a point.
On balance, the right policy decisions appear likely to prevail. Mayor Rawlings-Blake was absolutely correct to decry the process by which the council...

Baltimore's once-extensive speed camera program failed in part because the city didn't have enough staff to monitor the rush of tickets generated, three officials testified before a City Council investigative committee Monday.
Deputy Mayor Khalil Zaied, who oversaw the system, said it grew to include 83 speed and 81 red light cameras — the most of any city in North America. But Baltimore didn't staff the system with as many workers as some smaller jurisdictions, he said.
"It was not staffed as...

Republican Larry Hogan's campaign to "Change Maryland" scored a stunning upset Tuesday as he defeated Democrat Anthony G. Brown in the race for governor.
Hogan, 58, ran on a promise to curb state spending and cut taxes. He will become Maryland's second Republican governor in half a century, and will face a Democratic-controlled legislature that may not be willing to help him.
Brown conceded defeat shortly after midnight.
Hogan spokesman Adam Dubitsky acknowledged Maryland remains a Democratic...